capable• All the staff at the nursing home seemed very capable.• Mr. Young is a very capableattorney.• Lord himself was a capable but not an outstanding player.• They've got a very capablelawyer working on the case.• And if she is, surely she's perfectly capable of calling a doctor herself.• Blackburn now look to be the only only team capable of catchingscum.• It is this which makes the performancecapable of repetition.• If she were constitutionally capable of slumping, she would.• Ideally, it will need to be capable of working in all these media and of being extended.• But it does show that intermediatedesigns are capable of working.• He seemed to think she would be capable on a boat.• The team desperately needs a capablequarterback.• Rebecca was, without question, the most capabletechnician on the team.Origincapable(1500-1600)FrenchLate Latincapabilis, from Latincapere“to take”